What’s the best way to attract new customers?

There are dozens of ways to attract new customers to your web site. Search engines, article marketing, Google Adwords, old fashioned word of mouth and the list goes on. And here’s the secret: they all work – you don’t have to chase the latest trend to avoid failure. Choose one method that …will work for your business and see it through to the end. Success is usually the difference between trial and completion! What’s your favorite form of marketing? More tips at our next web design seminar – Simplifying the Internet Related articles Make Your Home Page Conjure Customers Google

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Lead your customers through your Sales Funnel

Designing Your Sales Funnel Your sales funnel is the typical path a visitor takes through your web site. In the example opposite people typically visit the home page, then the services page and then the contact us page where our ultimate goal is for them to make an enquiry. And as visitors pass through the funnel … Read the article – web design to increase sales via a funnel

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Define Effective Goals For Your Web Site

Even the simplest web site should have clearly defined goals. If I ask you to shoot these targets, you’re going to find the second one easier to hit because it’s nice and clear. And this is exactly what we need from our goals for our web site. They need to be clear. Every decision that you, your copywriter, your graphic designer and especially your staff make about your web site should be made within the context of your web sites’ goals. This ensures everything that everyone does with your web site is heading in the right direction. So what ever

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Find Your Niche Market to Find Your Best Customers

To find your best customers you need to know: Who they are How they find you What they are looking for What is most important to them, and How to get their attention. You could be forgiven for thinking that to reach a large number of customers you have to advertise on TV, because that’s where the most people are and that’s what the big companies do. That’s just the expensive way to do it. A niche market is a group of people who are looking for something specific and they can usually be reached cost effectively… Read the article

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Search Engine Optimisation – How to get top rankings

A popular myth suggests that adding your keyword phrases to the “meta tags” on your web site will give you great search engine rankings. In fact the meta tags only play a small part in getting your website pages well ranked. To get good, sales producing search engine traffic for a page on your web site you need 3 key things… Read the article – Search Engine Optimisation – How to get top rankings

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Search Engine Marketing – Turn One Article into a Perpetual Marketing Machine

To get good, sales producing search engine traffic for a page on your web site you need 3 key things: Good content on a well constructed page Page Optimisation – a page that is targeted to a popular and relevant keyword phrase Link Popularity – a good variety of high quality links from other web sites that talk about a similar topic (i.e. use similar keywords), and plenty of them. We’ll assume you have a great web site design company, so #1 is covered. With a bit of expertise and elbow grease (or some help from your web designer) you

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This month in Anyware Insights…

Welcome to Anyware Insights 2009. We are looking forward to this year, full of promise and opportunities. We decided to be optimistic about this time that some perceive as ‘tough’ – and we discovered most small business owners have joined us! Each one of us has control over where our businesses are going, it will not come if we sit and wait for it, we are the ones who need to act now in a positive, decisive manner. Learn from every challenge presented. In this issue we look at reinforcing customer contacts through repetition and customer referrals, why it is

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Show Your Prospects You Are A Real, Trustworthy Person And You Know Your Stuff

If you want people to buy products from your web site, they must believe they can trust you. Having an “About” page that tells people all about you can go a long way towards that. 1. Create a personal profile New customers don’t know you from a bar of soap and they want to ensure they’re not giving their hard earned cash to a fraudster. So having a “Personal Profile” or “About” page… Read the article – Show Your Prospects You Are A Real, Trustworthy Person And You Know Your Stuff

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What is an internet domain name and how can it help you?

If you are starting a new business, you probably know that you need to register your domain name to protect it from someone else buying it first. But what exactly are you buying, and what does it have to do with email and web sites? A domain name is like your brand name in cyber-space. You use it to put your own brand name… Read the article – What is an internet domain name and how can it help you?

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